---
title: Overview
description: "Discover the different notification channels available in OpenStatus"
---
import { Card } from '@astrojs/starlight/components';
import { CardGrid } from '@astrojs/starlight/components';
import { Image } from 'astro:assets';
import { LinkCard } from '@astrojs/starlight/components';
import DiscordNotification from '../../../assets/notification/discord-notification.png';

If you connect notification channels to your OpenStatus account, you can receive
alerts when your services are down. We will contact you when an incident is
created.

By default we don't send any notification. You need to connect your monitor to a notification channel to receive alerts.

  <Image
    src={DiscordNotification}
    alt="Create your notification bot"
  />

## Notification channels

<CardGrid>
  <LinkCard title="Email ✉️" href="/alerting/providers/email" description=" Receive an email"/>
  <LinkCard title="Slack 📣" href="/alerting/providers/slack" description="Get notified on Slack" />
  <LinkCard title="Discord 🤖" href="/alerting/providers/discord" description="Get notified on Discord" />
  <LinkCard title="SMS 📱" href="/alerting/providers/sms" description="Receive a text message" />
  <LinkCard title="ntfy.sh 🔔" href="/alerting/providers/ntfy" description="Receive a ntfy.sh notification" />
  <LinkCard title="Pagerduty 📟" href="/alerting/providers/pagerduty" description="Receive a pagerduty notification"/ >
  <LinkCard title="Phone 📞" href="/alerting/providers/phone-call" description="Get called on your phone" />
  <LinkCard title="Telegram 📡" href="/alerting/providers/telegram" description="Get notified on Telegram" />
  <LinkCard title="Webhook 🌐" href="/alerting/providers/webhook" description="Get notified by webhook" />

</CardGrid>
